1. Changing role of a tester in an agile world
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Changing role of a tester in an agile world
Anutthara Bharadwaj
Senior Program Manager,
Microsoft Corporation

2. Agenda What is Agile software development? What is Agile testing?
Adapting to Agile testing
People
Process
Tools
Real world Agile testing

3. What is Agile development?

4. Why Agile? Product lifecycles are getting shorter
Requirements are changing faster
Proven results in multiple sectors
Teams love it!

5. Agile is Growing Mainstream
May 5, 2010
The Forrester Wave™: Agile
Development Management Tools,
Q2 2010
by Dave West and Jeffrey S. Hammond

6. Agile Demands Changes
People
Tools
Process
Focus on
customer
value

7. Agile Testing – 3 pillars
Agile mindset for People
Agile Practices in Process
Agile lifecycle Tools

8. Agile Mindset for People
Collaboration
Trust & Transparency
Flexibility in roles and responsibilities
Responding to change
Collaboration becomes a necessity rather than nice-to-have. Collective ownership enables self organized teams. Dev/test separation not always present – quality is a team responsibility – not just testers

9. Agile Testing Process Continuous process, not an afterthought,
Shared team responsibility
Quality is a
Working software over spec compliance
Elimination of waste
Creativity to offset lack of detailed specs
A clear definition of Done in user story
Focus is on
Testing is a not a separate phase in an Agile process. From day 1, developers and testers work together. Test early and often – continuous build, continuous integration and continuous deployment
The focus is on collaboration, including collaboration with the customer and making sure all team members understand the user stories and change them, as needed.
One form of creativity is Exploratory Testing (XT). Testing can never cover all combinations of inputs, environments, transient conditions, etc. To uncover errors of omissions, use XT. Modern XT tools, such as, Microsoft MTM allow testers to file actionable bugs even when exploring an app.

10. Agile Practices for testers
Stand up meetings
User story reviews
ATDD/BDD
Team design reviews
Pair testing
Exploratory testing
Testing is a not a separate phase in an Agile process. From day 1, developers and testers work together. Test early and often – continuous build, continuous integration and continuous deployment
The focus is on collaboration, including collaboration with the customer and making sure all team members understand the user stories and change them, as needed.
One form of creativity is Exploratory Testing (XT). Testing can never cover all combinations of inputs, environments, transient conditions, etc. To uncover errors of omissions, use XT. Modern XT tools, such as, Microsoft MTM allow testers to file actionable bugs even when exploring an app.

11. Agile Tools Agile testing needs tools that support Team collaboration
Reduction of waste
Transparency & visibility
A holistic approach to Application Lifecycle Management

12. Real world Agile testing
Visual Studio ALM Test
Enterprise product
100 engineer team
2 year product cycle

13. Agile Mindset Collaboration a necessity – feature crews
SDETs had mixed reactions
Responding to change

14. Agile Practices SCRUM standup meetings Exploratory testing
Pair testing
Shared test automation
Continuous integration

15. Exploratory testing
Dogfood IDC NAR

16. Shared test automation
Dogfood IDC NAR

17. Continuous integration
Rolling build server setup to automatically kick off a build for every new checkin
Built using Lab Management workflows on Team Build
Tests run as part of rolling build: developer unit tests and relevant QA automation
E2E scenario tests run on each build post beta to ensure we remain “done” on e2e scenarios
Dogfood IDC NAR

18. Agile Tools Dogfooded our own tools
Visual Studio 2010 Test Professional
Visual Studio 2010 Lab Manager

19. Actionable bugs Repro steps Actions on bug Video recording
Intellitrace ™
Screenshots
Comments
Debug logs
Event logs
System information
Snapshot

20. Virtualization of Test Environments
Dogfood IDC NAR

21. Automatic Test Impact Analysis
Dogfood IDC NAR

22. Transparent project management
Highlight that testers need to have visibility into metrics, such as, code coverage and code churn and test impact to bridge dev-test gap.

23. Conclusion Agile Mindset for People Agile Processes Agile Tools
Collaboration, transparency, flexibility
Respond to change quickly
Agile Processes
Quality shared responsibility from day one
Pick practices that suit your team – exploratory testing, pair testing, CI etc.
Agile Tools
Pick tools that are friction free
Use tools that break siloes between dev and test

24. Thank you!